Life & Death Sayings

I am almost ashamed to be living in such peace while all the rest struggle and suffer.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this.

I think that I will die with the boots on.

To destroy you is no loss, to preserve you is no gain.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

I am not afraid to die. I shall die a martyr for the cause of Christ.

The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living.

There is no death, but only change.

Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.

The computer is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or for evil.

I feel we have blood on our hands.

I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of not living.

I have a horrid presentiment of my own death.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

Before I was born it was completely paradise… the moment of [being] born is the moment the paradise is lost. Death is the regain of this paradise.

Death dances around my bed at night.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.